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Austen Allred was homeless for 3 months when he was fundraising for his first company Grasswire, a media platform that lets everyone create collaborative news reports by voting on and fact-checking social media content in real-time. Austen was so broke that he couldn't afford to rent a place in Silicon Valley to meet with investors.
To still have a
... See moreLeo Luo • 🏫 Lambda School
Almost immediately, I raised $1.1M from an all-star cast of angel investors and venture capital firms, including Max Levchin, Chris Sacca, Ron Conway, Naval Ravikant, Collaborative Fund, Accel Partners, and First Round Capital. A few months later, in May 2012, we raised $7M more. Mike Abbott from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a top-t... See more
Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company
Elliott doubled back to Joel Holland. But instead of asking him to fully commit, he posed a different question, one that would later become the bedrock of Summit Series’s strategy for growth: Elliott asked him if there was anybody else he knew who might like to come.
Brett Leve • Make No Small Plans: Lessons on Thinking Big, Chasing Dreams, and Building Community
Travis Kalanick started Uber as a hack to split a few private cars with his friends. Thefacebook.com was just a student directory written in PHP. Even Elon Musk started SpaceX with the goal of merely increasing NASA’s budget by pulling a PR stunt.